Honesty

Honesty to me is a much valued aspect in a relationship that is never really grasped and held up for a very long time. A man or a woman can never be honest with everything they say in life. To me, it is natural for a human to withhold truth from their lips at least once in their lifetime. This is because humans are not perfect in any sort of way, some way or another, a human being is flawed. Honesty in itself is a very respectable virtue. Because with honesty can come the other virtues of trust, respect, love, and honesty in itself, can also see loyalty at its heels. Spouses have to be honest with their partners in order to keep trust within their relationship with each other. A soldier must honestly do his or her part to serve the nation they live for. Honesty is to me, something that I can never properly attain to myself. I see times where I am dishonest to the fellow lifeforms I interact with each day and to myself. I sometimes feel that when I do something right for me, it is not honestly the right thing to really do. However, this does not mean I live each day with an inner war within myself. I just see my moments of honesty and dishonesty to myself.

The virtue of honesty shall be a gift to a person who always utters truths and seals his/her lips to lies.

After thought:

Finally I am back with the virtue of honesty. I know it has been a long wait for this next installment, but I hope that this will relieve you of your burden of waiting. I thank you readers reading this for practicing your patience and I shall promise you more in the future.

Perseverance

"Our greatest glory, is not in never falling, but it rising every time we fall". That to me explains the virtue of perseverance in a nut shell. If you can be knocked down all of the time and get back up every time, why should anyone even doubt your power? If you are willing to work towards your goals and not let anyone get in your way, perseverance is in your blood.

To have that kind of personality and to not give up no matter what and risk life and limb for what you want, you are truly an inspiring person and that you have my salute. Push forward and reach for the Heavens that hold your goals. In the end, greatness will be in hand.

For that being said, I am currently demonstrating perseverance by pushing to become a philosopher and attain a place in the literary world, to be immortalized forever in the pages of history. That is my persevering goal.

after word:

I tend to value the virtue of perseverance a lot. To me, that virtue hits home at right where the heart is in me. I leave you readers with this: Never doubt yourself even for a minute, never say you can never do it, if you put your mind to it, anything is possible if you try hard enough.

Luck

To be lucky or unlucky, that is the course of fate for most people. Luck is taken all too seriously. I believe sans luck, the person can still lead a happy, healthy life. With luck, the person will only just take advantage of it and become a pampered stuck up ignorant fool.

after thought:

Today's virtue was unfortunately short. I also believe the after thought will be short as well. i can not write anything else on this virtue.

Bravery

Bravery is something that is always shown in our country. Bravery to me and probably to the dictionary, means to be willing to stand up against something and to never show any sign of fear, to stand for what you believe in, to go against the masses regardless of the outcome that will surround you. That is true bravery. Our own soldiers and forefathers have shown just that as well. During the American Revolution, our founding fathers all worked hard with each other and were all brave enough to face the mother land to declare independence. Now, our soldiers are brave enough to go into unknown territory to fight terrorists that do know the land. To me, bravery is a very respectable trait in anyone's personality, if you're a brave one, then you're a comrade in the lot of us. I am a brave person myself, because I was born with a truck load of medical issues and I was brave enough to go under the light and surgical knife nineteen times and I'm certainly brave enough to do it again if I had to. I believe that shows not only bravery, but true strength and courage to do those things to just battle the struggle to just basically breathe and walk among the living.

After thought:

I believed bravery to be a good virtue because of how meaningful it is to the United States of America. Bravery itself can be shown in the light of all people in this world either way we look. There are countless numbers of people willing to do what they believe is right for them. If more people in the world could show bravery in just the smallest amount, surely, this world will change quite drastically.

Strength

Strength is only ever commonly portrayed as how much weight one can lift or how much force they can hold back or push, or even how long they can endure a certain feat. Strength should never be pictured as nothing more than a physical attribute to someone, it should also be a spiritual and mental thing. In fact, I consider myself the strongest person I know. I believe that to understand my life is to understand true strength.

It should not matter how big your muscles are, or how much of it you have, or whether you can juggle barbells for all I care. What should matter is how strong you are on the inside. My mother once told me that God chose me to be a very strong person, the strong man in my family, if I must. I would even very much like to believe that as well. I do consider myself to be chosen by God to be spiritually strong. I would like to believe that God chose me to go what I have gone through and suffer the hardships that I have suffered growing up with all of the problems I have been born with.

Strength really should be about the spirit and the mind, not about muscle power. Strength is about believing in yourself as an individual and surviving the struggles you have encountered and endured in your lifetime. If you were born completely healthy and perfect and just brought into a perfect world with perfect parents and a lot of money. You can not be strong, no matter how much weight you lift in the gym. If the only thing you have suffered through is being choked to near-death, or have been hit by a car that was not going that fast, you are not strong, you are just as weak and fragile as the rest of the normal human beings around you.

A man bounded with muscles and testosterone is only going to be as strong as he says he is. But get a man to gunpoint on this musclebound beef head and surely that man will break down and show his true colors of weakness. That man will never be wholly strong, he will only be physically strong. Hide behind your muscles and you are only showing that you are a weakling.

After thought:

I thought today's virtue could be about strength because it is a certain characteristic that is only ever taken all too lightly. I wanted to tell you readers about what true strength is and what strength really should be.

Wealth

Wealth is something that a lot of people take as that to be wealthy is to have a lot of money, with a nice house, a nice car collection, a nice family, and a nice job. I think that kind of wealth is non-existent.

To have a lot of money, doesn't mean you are wealthy or rich, it just means you're living a very nice life that is surrounded by money. When it comes to money, you are rich no matter what, because even with two cents in hand, you are considered wealthy among the nothing'ers which are commonly referred to as the homeless. Money, however, does not matter in life, because it shouldn't. Life isn't about success stories as in terms of rags to riches. Life itself is about a journey to find your true self and once you have found it, what to do about it.

Even without money, you can be very rich. If you are each day filled with a positive attitude and happiness, showing the world how bright your smile can be, then what will poverty be to you? As long as one has the clothes on their back and their head held high, they are wealthy in spirit, mind, and body.

After word:

This marks the start of a new blog I am going to entitle Virtues. Virtues will be a (hopefully)daily blog in which I will write down things of powerful meaning, like the one here about wealth. I may not be able to write truly inspiring statements like my philosophical heroes, but I feel that I can do something with this kind of blog.